Browsing Founders Memorial Library Faculty and Staff Publications by Issue Date
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Unseen Influence: Lucretia Blankenburg and the Rise of Philadelphia Reform Politics in 1911
(University of New Mexico Press, 1999)Lucretia Blankenburg successfully made women a crucial element of her husband Rudolph's successful campaign to become Mayor of Philadelphia in 1911. Although the reform candidate did not enjoy the use of the type of political ... -
EconLit: Light on the Dismal Science
(Taylor & Francis, 2000)The article examines the weaknesses and strengths of the economics database, EconLit. Comparison is made with other social science databases with especial emphasis on the alphanumeric classification and indexing system ... -
Guy de Maupassant
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Enfer
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Selected Research and Writings on Instruction for Music Librarians: An Annotated Bibliography
(Haworth Press, Inc., the journal has since been acquired by Taylor & Francis, 2004)This is a classified annotated bibliography of selected writings on library instruction for music librarians. Works cited include books and articles about instruction in music libraries, other course-related or course-integrated ... -
Solomon Huebner and the Development of Life Insurance Sales Professionalism, 1905-1927
(Oxford University Press, 2005-12)In 1927 the National Association of Life Underwriters collaborated with Professor Solomon Huebner of the University of Pennsylvania to found the American College of Life Underwriters, an institution devoted to establishing ... -
"Webs of Significance": The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, New Technology, and the Democratization of History
(The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization, 2007)Lincoln/Net (http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu), a product of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project at Northern Illinois University Libraries, represents a new type of historically oriented digital library resource. ... -
Digital History and the Public: Envisioning the Mississippi Valley of the Nineteenth Century
(Edinburgh University Press and Association for History and Computing, 2007-10)Article describes resources available online via Mark Twain's Mississippi Project web site (http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain) and argues that they represent an important means by which non-specialist users may imagine and ... -
Building a New Generation of Online Public History Resources: Promise and Problems Identified in the Development of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
(Doing Public History, 2008)This article describes the development of the Lincoln/Net web site at Northern Illinois University Libraries. It argues that to date academic historians have largely used digital technology and the web to advance research, ... -
Donor Relations 2.0: Using Web 2.0 to Connect with Donors
(Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, August 14, 2009., 2009) -
A New Order of Things: St. Louis, Chicago, and the Struggle for Western Commercial Supremacy
(The Confluence, 2011)St. Louis leadership during the Gilded Age was nothing if not confident, even suggesting that the nation's capital be moved to the St. Louis region. -
The Embedded Curator: Reexamining the Documentation Strategy of Archival Acquisitions in a Web 2.0 Environment
(ACRL Publications for American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012)AN EMBEDDED CURATOR uses his or her physical and virtual presence within a selected community to document that community while simultaneously serving as a resource to it. While the “embedded curator” term may be relatively ... -
Applying the Framework for Information Literacy to the Developmental Education Classroom
(Community & Junior College Libraries, 2014)Translating the new Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (ACRL November 2014) into learning outcomes, instructional content, and assessments might appear to be an overwhelming task; however, in many cases ... -
The Digital POWRR Project: Enabling Collaborative Pragmatic Digital Preservation Approaches
(iPres 2014 Conference, 2014)The Digital POWRR Project has spent several years investigating scalable and practical digital preservation solutions that might be able to be implemented at smaller and less-resourced institutions. -
From Theory to Action: Good Enough Digital Preservation for Under-Resourced Cultural Heritage Institutions
(2014-08-27)Libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations collect, create, and steward a rapidly increasing volume of digital content. Both research conclusions and professionals’ real-life experiences expose ... -
The Digital POWRR Project - A Final Report to the Institute of Museum and Library Services
(2015-02)The POWRR project investigated and reported on scalable digital preservation (DP) solutions for small and mid-sized institutions often faced with small staff sizes, restricted IT infrastructures, and tight budgets. ... -
Honors Capstone Deposit Tutorial
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Tutorials and information on depositing faculty materials into Huskie Commons
(Northern Illinois University, 2015-06-09)Below you will find an instructional guide (DepositTutorial.pdf) created for NIU faculty that details the process of depositing peer-reviewed manuscripts into Huskie Commons, in compliance with the University's Open Access ... -
Threshold Concepts as Metaphors for the Creative Process: Adapting the Framework for Information Literacy to Studio Art Classes
(University of Chicago Press, 2015-09)With the revision of the ACRL information literacy standards into a metaliteracy framework, art librarians now have an opportunity to better adapt information literacy instruction for studio art students. By using the new ...
